Method of making toupees



Feb- 28, c DVORZSAK METHOD OF MAKING TOUPEES 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Nov. 17, 1954 IN V EN TOR.

DVORZSAK Fgig. 28, 1956 c. DVORZSAK 2,736,325

METHOD OF MAKING TOUPEES Filed NOV. 17, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IN VEN TOR. 27 CHARLES DVORZSAK United States Patent METHOD OF MAKING TOUPEES Charles Dvorzsak, New York, N. Y.

Application November 17, 1954, Serial No. 469,427

4 Claims. (Cl. 132-53) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in hair wigs or toupees.

More particularly, the present invention proposes the construction of an improved toupee having a hair and part line member made of fish skin, plastic, gut, casing material or the like which is thin, transparent and flexible and which will give the appearance of a human scalp at the hair line and in the part line of the toupee.

As a further object, the present invention proposes providing a recticulate member to underlie the hair and part line member and to which single spaced strands of hair are attached each encircling one strand of the reticulate member and extending through the hair and part line member at spaced points.

Still further, the present invention proposes forming a toupee with a scalp member to which spaced tufts of hair are attached and connecting to peripheral portions of the scalp member to recticulate member and the hair and part line member.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the top of a persons head with a toupee thereon constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the toupee shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged bottom plan view of the toupee shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hair and part line member shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view of the hair and part line member and recticulate member thereunder with some hairs inserted.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line 77 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 6 but showing how the hairs may be inserted.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, a toupee 15 constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention is shown in place in Fig. l on a persons head and is shown alone in Figs. 2 and 3 in top and bottom plan views.

Toupee 15 has a thin, transparent, flexible hair and part line member 16 which is adapted to be positioned on a persons head so as to lie adjacent to and form the hair line on the forehead and to form a part line on the top of the persons head. The hair and part line member 16 is made of fish skin, gut, casing material such as is used for salami, bologna and other sausages, plastic or the like.

A recticulate member 17 underlies the hair and part 2,736,325 Patented Feb. 28, 1956 'ice The members 16 and 17 are both secured at their rear edges 20 and 21 to a scalp member 22 made of fabric such as closely woven nylon cloth. Reinforcing members 23 and 24 are secured to the front portion of the scalp member 22 and a reinforcing member 25 is secured to the rear portion of the scalp member 22. All reinforcing members preferably are made of fabric such as closely woven nylon cloth. Stitching 26 secures the reinforcing members 23, 24 and 25 to the scalp member 22 and also secures the members 16 and 17 to the scalp member 22.

Single strands of hair 27, either natural or artificial are secured in spaced relation to the hair and part line member 16 and to the reticulate member 17. These strands 27 each extend through spaced points 28 and 29 in the hair and part line member 16 andencircle one of the strands 30 of the reticulate member. The strands 27 may be put through the hair and part line member 16 at any angle desired, the hair and part line member holding the hairs 27 disposed at such angle. In mounting the strands 27, one end 31 of a strand is placed through the hair and part line member at one of the spaced points 28 or 29. A hooked needle 32 (Fig. 8) may then be inserted through the hair and part line member at the other point (29 or 28) and that end 31 of the hair 27 pulled around one of the strands 30 of the reticulate member 17 and back through the hair and part line member 16 so that both free ends 31 and 33 of each hair 27 are disposed at one side of the hair and part line member. When the hairs 27 are so doubled or bent they each have a crook or bend 34 encircling one of the strands 30 of the reticulate member. The hair and part line member is glued to the hair at a few spots after the hair has all been drawn through it.

Tufts of hair 35 are secured to the scalp member 22, the tufts being closely spaced on the scalp member. Preferably the tufts are secured by knotting, that is, each tuft consists of a plurality of strands of hair extending through spaced portions or openings in the scalp member and bent double with a loop end 36 brought back through the scalp member and encircling the tuft adjacent the scalp member to lock the tuft to the scalp member (see Fig. 5)

The hair and part line member may be secured at spaced spots to a persons head by an adhesive, glue or the like, and the scalp member may be similarly secured.

Once in place, the hair and part line member will give a natural appearance to the toupee at the front hair line and in the part. The hair and part line member closely resembles skin and the single hairs coming out of the member look like hairs coming from follicles on a persons head. The hair and part line member will hold each hair erect and give it direction so that it will not mat down. Since many people who wear toupees do not wish the fact known, the nature and construction of the hair and part line member will tend to make it most difiicult to detect that a toupee is being worn. The reticulate member being of fine strand construction and spaced back from the front edge of the hair and part line member will not be visible through the hair and part line member once the toupee is in place. The natural opaqueness of such transparent material as fish skin, gut, casing material and the like will also prevent any view of the reticulate members fine strands.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patcut is:

ILA-toupee comprising a thin, transparent, flexible hair and part line member adapted, tolbeadhered to. a persons head, a reticulate; member underlying said hair and part line member, a plurality of spaced strands of hair each secured to the reticulate member and extending through the hair and part line member, a scalp member peripherally secured to the other two members, said scalp member having a plurality of closely spaced tufts of hair secured thereto, said tufts each being a plurality of strands of hair extendingthrough spacedportions of the scalp member and bent double with a loop end encircling the tuft adjacent the scalp member to lock the tuft to, the scalp member, and reinforcing members secured to the scalp member at front and rear end portions thereof, said scalp member and said reinforcing members being of fabric, and said reticulate member being of net fabric, said hair and part line member being of plastic.

2. A toupee comprising; a thin, transparent, flexible hair and. part line member adapted to be adhered to a persons head, a reticulate member underlying said hair and part line member, a plurality of spaced strands of hair each secured to the reticulate member and extending through the hair and part line member, a scalp member peripherally secured to the other two members, said scalp member having a plurality of closely spaced tufts of hair secured thereto, said tufts each being a plurality of strands of hair extending through spaced portions of the scalp member and bent double with a loop end encircling the tuft adjacent the scalp member to lock the tuft to the scalp member, and, reinforcing members secured to the scalp member at front and rear end portions thereof, said scalp member and said reinforcing members being of fabric, and said reticulate member being of net fabric, said hair and part line. member being of fish skin.

3. A toupee comprisinga thin, transparent, flexible hair and part line member adapted to be adhered to a persons head, a reticulate member underlying said hair and part line member, a plurality of spaced strands of hair each secured to the rectiulate member and extending through the hair and part line member, a scalp member peripherally secured to the other two members, said scalp member having a plurality of closely spaced tufts of hair secured thereto, said tufts each being a plurality of strands of hair extending through spaced portions of the scalp member and bent double with a loop end encircling the tuft adjacent the scalp member to lock the tuft to the scalp member, and reinforcing members secured to the scalp member at front and rear end portions thereof, said scalp member and said reinforcing members being of fabric, and said reticulate member being of net fabric, said hair and part line member being of gut.

4. A toupee comprising a thin, transparent, flexible hair and part line member adapted to be adhered to a persons head, a reticulate member underlying said hair and part line member, a plurality of spaced strands of hair each secured to the reticulate member and extending through the hair and part line member, a scalp member peripherally secured to the other two members, said scalp mem her having a plurality of closely spaced tufts of hair secured thereto, said tufts each being a plurality of strands of hair extending through spaced portions of the scalp member and bent double with a loop end encircling the tuft adjacent the scalp member to lock the tuft to the scalp member, and reinforcing members secured to the scalp member at front and rear end portions thereof, said scalp member and said reinforcing members being of fabric, and said reticulate member being of net fabric, said hair and part line member being of casing material.

.Rcferences (Iited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 994,619 Taylor June 6, 1911 1,144,658 Lombard June 29, 1915 1,464,089 Ernest Aug. 7, 1923 

